Post-Horror Av David Church

<p>Horror’s longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism with established genre conventions. Variously dubbed ''elevated horror'' and ''post-horror,'' films such as <i>The Babadook</i>, <i>It Follows</i>, <i>The Witch</i>, <i>It Comes at Night</i>, <i>Get Out</i>, <i>The Invitation</i>, <i>Hereditary</i>, <i>Midsommar</i>, <i>A Ghost Story</i>, and <i>mother!</i> represent an emerging nexus of taste, politics, and style that has often earned outsized acclaim from critics and populist rejection by wider audiences. <i>Post-Horror</i> is the first full-length study of one of the most important and divisive movements in twenty-first-century horror cinema.</p>